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SOCIES [1 record]

Record 1 2002-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecosystems
  • Botany
DEF

A transitory ecological society of a developmental community: a seral community comparable to a society.

CONT

Each group of seasonals plus the constantly present predominants make up a socies, that is a seasonal subdivision or aspect-phase of the presocies.

CONT

The socies bears exactly the same relation to consocies and associes that the society does to consociation and association.

OBS

socies: the term [is] answering to "society" [that is, to a community of plants within a mature consociation characterized by one or more subdominant species, but] in analyses of immature plant communities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écosystèmes
  • Botanique
CONT

Dans la série évolutive, l'équivalent de la société est appelé sociès. Elle est caractérisée par des espèces subdominantes mais son existence est temporaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecosistemas
  • Botánica
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